Write-up Challenge!

9 writers, 6 weekly sessions

The Write-Up Challenge 2025 has completed for this year. Plans are being laid for a new Write-Up Challenge cohort in 2026 .

Check info and a few testimonials from this year’s wonderful cohort and work below!

Working on a project and struggling to move from sketches, research & development to actual writing?

There’s nothing like regular, committed practice in a small dedicated group to get going and keep going!

Don’t go it solo!
Join us: You get 6 weeks & we’re doing it together!

Who is this for?

This challenge will benefit writers, interdisciplinary artists, and art practitioners from various fields and forms who are about to engage in a project's writing up and content development.

The challenge is kept to just nine artists/writers to secure enough time and space for a dedicated and focused studio atmosphere.

The challenge takes place in our Online Writing Studio if you feel ready and excited to get to work on your project, are open to sharing and exchanging with others, and are welcoming of generous critical thinking!

Prior experience completing a project is advisable as well as an interest in various art forms, and ways of working.

We strongly welcome practitioners who work and write across artforms, fields, identities, cultures and languages.

Please note: English is the studio’s working language but not necessarily the only language at work.

Testimonials

  • Without doubt, one of the most valuable aspects of the course for me was its duration and depth - the sustained dialogue was an extremely enjoyable and fulfilling way of developing creative relationships with a wonderful range of practitioners.

    —Practice Conversation Participant

  • The variety of approaches among the assembled artists was deeply engaging for me. I also looked more carefully at my own practises and understand them more fully.

    —Practice Conversation Participant

  • A good facilitator knows when to give direction, and when to step back and let the conversations that are starting unfold. Caroline does a great job at that, and at opening up a space to enter and engage with everyone’s work and process. The Write Up Challenge was a really generative experience for me.

    —Brad, poet. Write-Up Challenge 2025

  • Caroline’s compassionate approach provided a creative and supportive environment for sharing work across time zones. Each participant had their own unique practice, but the workshop style enabled us all to share our work, give and receive feedback, and encourage each other. I am definitely a better artist after this workshop.

    —Trine, multi-disciplinary artist. Write-Up Challenge 2025

  • I feel a return of confidence and momentum, and simple excitement for the work. I also can acknowledge and grasp all that I have accomplished already.

    —Corrine, poet and editor. Write-Up Challenge 2025

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You will leave the Write-Up Challenge:

✔ With a first draft of your project, ready to take forward

✔ With a structured awareness of your own project and path

✔ Feeling purposeful, motivated, and supported

✔ Full of new ideas and new ways of working

✔ A more authentic and aware practitioner

✔ Energized from engaged dialogue and group listening

✔ With an established peer group for the future

✔ Clearer about the value of interdisciplinary sharing

How it works

1

Individual Work

In between our sessions, you commit to working on your project. Time management, plan of action, and various forms of accountability within the group keep you on track and help you keep going.

Each of you will also be offered a one-on-one hour-long tutorial with Caroline as part of the course.

2

Main Group Dialogue

This is our weekly conversation in the round. A time for checking in as a group, engaging with discoveries and dilemmas large and small. The session is live and recorded so don’t worry if you miss one, you can always go back to it.

Caroline offers brief weekly micro-talks as exploratory teasings created from your queries to replenish your motivation.

3

Ongoing Support and Exchange

In between sessions, you make use of our private WhatsApp group to check-in informally, share dilemmas, and encourage one another. Throughout our time together, a unique work platform allows you to share excerpts and pieces in progress. Feel free to comment, encourage, share ideas.

4

Actionable feedback

During our weekly session, you get to meet in small groups with a max of 3 to go through more detailed aspects of the past week's work, ideas shared and your overall progress.

There will be a brief informal moment of presentation by each participant to the whole group so you get to know the various projects in the group and can better support these.

Fees

  • £ 486 in full (includes admin fees), or

  • £ 162 in three installments

The fee has been kept as low as possible and includes an additional full One-on-One hourly session with Caroline Bergvall (usually costs £95), plus much more.

Practical Info

6 weekly sessions + a one-on-one hourly session with Caroline Bergvall

  • The 6 weekly sessions are live and recorded, so don’t worry if you miss one. You can always go back to it.

  • Dedicated time will be allocated for an individual mentoring session for each participant with Caroline

When

  • Online sessions take place on Saturdays to allow for various timezones and life’s other demands.

Dates and times

  • 18 January 2025 to 1 March 2025

  • 4.30 - 6pm GMT / 11.30am - 1pm EST / 8.30 - 10am PDT

Application

  • Deadline to apply: 1 December 2024

  • Selection finalised & applicants contacted on 16 December

  • Payment due by w/c 13 January

About Caroline…

My work as a coach and mentor is focused on supporting artists and writers to explore and manifest their work's full development and creative potential.

I'm a writer and interdisciplinary artist with a wide and recognised reputation and experience running projects. I work  in many contexts, cultural situations, and collaborations with other artists, writers, and musicians as well as with galleries, curators, and publishers. I have 25 years of teaching and research experience within universities and art colleges across the world. I have also undertaken various coaching training to support and deepen what I can offer you.